“But now her reputation has been shredded and the damage done to the credibility of Jamaican athletics in general is extensive. She has complained in the past that modern-day female athletes have been denied commercial opportunities because many women’s world records have been set by drug-tainted Eastern Europeans, and therefore beyond reach. Now she belongs in the same hall of shame.”

Oh. Really? We don’t wait to hear what the athlete’s explanation is before we declare she belongs in the same hall of shame as those Eastern European sprint frauds? After well over a decade of sprinting and winning without even the slightest hint of impropriety?

No. Maybe I will be proven a fool later but like Sanya and Wallace and Kim Collins and millions of other Jamaican and Caribbean people, I am waiting to hear from VCB and until then, I stand behind her.